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willing to pay for it, and without any supervision, they are 

 most unsatisfactory. 



IV. THE SCORE-CARD SYSTEM 



This system of recording the results of dairy and cow- 

 shed inspections is a system of American origin, which has 

 greatly extended in America of recent years. It was first in- 

 troduced and used in 1904 by Dr. W. C. Woodward, Health 

 Officer of the District of Columbia. A little later Professor 

 R A. Pearson, of Cornell University, introduced a somewhat 

 different form of score -card. The Dairy Division of the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry took up its use and extended it. 

 At the third meeting of the Official Dairy Instructors' Asso- 

 ciation, July 1908, the committee presented the score-card in 

 a new form, embodying, as far as possible, the criticisms sub- 

 mitted by the heads of the various dairy departments. This 

 card, with a few minor changes, was adopted by the associa- 

 tion and by the Dairy Division of the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry. This card, 1 which is reproduced on pages 362, 363, 

 may therefore be considered the standard and best type of 

 card so far evolved. Size of card, 8x5 inches. 



As Lane and Whitaker point out, a valuable feature of the 

 card is the separation of dairy conditions into equipment and 

 methods. The score for equipment indicates the quality and 

 sufficiency of the tools the dairyman has to work with, while 

 the score for methods gives an accurate idea of the way the 

 dairyman uses his equipment, and indicates whether he is 

 practising right methods. 



The card is arranged with separate columns, for " Equipment " 

 and "Methods," and allows a total of 40 and 60 points, respect- 

 ively, for each. This arrangement of points is made for the 

 purpose of emphasising the importance of good methods, and giving 

 unmistakable credit for cleanliness. A person may be handicapped 

 by poor buildings which he has inherited or leased, and which he 

 cannot afford to rebuild ; but he can be clean. Painstaking methods, 

 particularly in regard to cleanliness, will give a creditable score in 

 spite of poor equipment. 



1 I am greatly indebted to Mr. G. M. Whitaker, of the U.S. Department of 

 Agriculture, for permission to reproduce this card, for copies of it, and for other 

 information, particularly Circular 139, issued April 1909, by C. B. Lane and 

 G. M. Whitaker, upon "The Score-card System of Dairy Inspection." 



